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MOUNTING SYSTEM
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First, I fab'd mounting brackets out of 1/8" flat steel rods from Home Depot. I bought a cracked console bezel (hence the tape) to use for test fitting. I also bought and murdered a metra double-din adapter from crutchfield.

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DISASSEMBLED DOC
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I bought and disassembled a Samsung tablet doc so that I could have a very low profile interface connection. The vette left almost NO room to either side for connectivity, so this had to be thought out a fair bit.

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CYANOGENMOD AND EXTERNAL MIC
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I rooted and installed cyanogenmod10 on the tablet, and bought a right-angle 3-signal headphone jack interface with the electronics and external microphone.

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INSTALLATION
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Here are some pictures of the actuall install into the corvette.

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DEMO VIDEO
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See it in action!

If anything, I think your project just convinced me to go the Android route versus miniPC route given the looks and how simple it is to hook up while remaining very feature rich and cost effective... Thank you for sharing, and I will definitely keep an eye out for when you upload the videos of the added features. By the way, you did an awesome job on the bezel!

If anything, I think your project just convinced me to go the Android route versus miniPC route given the looks and how simple it is to hook up while remaining very feature rich and cost effective... Thank you for sharing, and I will definitely keep an eye out for when you upload the videos of the added features. By the way, you did an awesome job on the bezel!

Thanks!

The only considerable down side to using Android vs PC is if you want/need extremely high sound quality. If your music collection is mostly mp3/aac/wma like mine, than the sq difference between the tablet's DAC and an expensive sound card will be minimal. If you have a audio library full of high quality files (flac, ogg, lossless, etc), then the miniPC is the better route because you can buy a sound card with a good DAC and take advantage.